Going threw the cellar for a nice red for my Birthday Dinner tonight , i can across this classic so it would nice to give readers a update how its going from the great 2008 year. Deep Black Core still in colour with a ruby rim at March 2020. excellent for age of 12yrs stelvin closure . Yeah yummy plummy prune and iodine shiraz fruit leaps out of the glass with lovely oak integration as u would except. Maturing as excepted . excellent still way to go to. On the palate we have now wonderfull super ripe sweet fruit upfront , rich mid palate sweetness (amazing for its age) and lovely sweet oily tannins , in perfect balance. Wow great wine for certain . worth checking out if u can find and the fruit is so good will last another 5+years yet . Perfect example of the greatness of McLaren Vale shiraz. Great Producer of Shiraz as we know . The balance is perfect and great with rare fillet beef and beetroots . QPR $70 +
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2012 Sydney Royal Wine Show - Exhibitor's Tasting (Olympic Park, Homebush): {screwcap, 14.5%} Big, youthful, sweet jammy nose of liqueured blackberries. Just the way Parker and the Americans used to like them. But do they still? The palate is sweet; really fruit-sweet with blueberries and plums and spicy oak, and it wouldn’t surprise me if there was some unfermented sugar here, so candied and cordial-like is the palate texture. Gentle tannins and soft acid are very much in the background; it finishes medium-length. Not too alcoholic, however. A crowd pleaser for early drinking.
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3/18/2020 - Paul Anderson Likes this wine: 97 Points
Going threw the cellar for a nice red for my Birthday Dinner tonight , i can across this classic so it would nice to give readers a update how its going from the great 2008 year.
Deep Black Core still in colour with a ruby rim at March 2020. excellent for age of 12yrs stelvin closure .
Yeah yummy plummy prune and iodine shiraz fruit leaps out of the glass with lovely oak integration as u would except. Maturing as excepted . excellent still way to go to.
On the palate we have now wonderfull super ripe sweet fruit upfront , rich mid palate sweetness (amazing for its age) and lovely sweet oily tannins , in perfect balance. Wow great wine for certain . worth checking out if u can find and the fruit is so good will last another 5+years yet . Perfect example of the greatness of McLaren Vale shiraz. Great Producer of Shiraz as we know . The balance is perfect and great with rare fillet beef and beetroots .
QPR $70 +
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2/9/2013 - JJAussie wrote: 95 Points
As good as 2007
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2/17/2012 - graemeg wrote:
2012 Sydney Royal Wine Show - Exhibitor's Tasting (Olympic Park, Homebush): {screwcap, 14.5%} Big, youthful, sweet jammy nose of liqueured blackberries. Just the way Parker and the Americans used to like them. But do they still? The palate is sweet; really fruit-sweet with blueberries and plums and spicy oak, and it wouldn’t surprise me if there was some unfermented sugar here, so candied and cordial-like is the palate texture. Gentle tannins and soft acid are very much in the background; it finishes medium-length. Not too alcoholic, however. A crowd pleaser for early drinking.
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